Workers from Okray Family Farms in Plover plant potatoes Friday afternoon in a field off of Glenwood Road in Wisconsin Rapids. This year's unseasonably long winter delayed Okray's planting.

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Nathan Vine
| Central Wisconsin Sunday

Mike Finnessy was candid Friday when asked where Okray Family Farms stands in the potato-growing season.

Finnessy said the company is about two weeks behind in planting. He said the company typically plants more than 8,000 acres a year with various produce, and by this time in a typical year, they already would have planted about 800 to 900 acres. Instead, workers were beginning to plant fields Friday and will have about a dozen workers trying to catch up.

After a 2012 season that started early with unseasonably warm weather, farmers and agriculture officials say cold weather has delayed ...